Season 3 • Episode 6
LatestBradley prepares the grounds at his new country estate for a cricket match. Morris and Matthew meet in France and attempt to escape the Germans by stealing one of their planes. They make it to England and as they fly over the cricket pitch, they send a message attached to Morris's golliwog.
Brass is a British comedy-drama series created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, and produced by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty, Brass was unusual for ITV comedies of the time, as there was no laugh track and the humour deliberately kept extremely dry, using convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. Set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire.
Writing
Convoluted wordplay that demands your full attention.
Acting
Timothy West's theatrical sneer as Bradley Hardacre.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Created during the 1984-85 miners' strike, its Lancashire setting and class warfare hit differently than intended.
No laugh track was radical for ITV comedy; Granada fought hard to keep the silence.
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